Our story begins with the introductions of characters at the wedding of Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite, two Lithuanian immigrants living in Chicago's stockyards with the rest of their family, Ona's stepmother Elzbieta Lukoszaite (Teta Elzbieta), Ona's cousin Marija Berczynskas, Elzbieta's brother Jonas, Jurgis's father Antanas Rudkus (Dede Antanas), and Elzbieta's six children. After the wedding it flashes back to the history of the family and how they came to America, and all the troubles they had once they were here, mostly troubles dealing with the language b...

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The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim,...

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Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. Hoffman's film is a Hollywood product, intended for a broad...

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